Project information
Species diversity and ecology of selected West African vertebrates
- Project Identification
- IAA6093404
- Project Period
- 1/2004 - 12/2008
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- Grants of distinctly investigative character focused on the sphere of research pursued at present particularly in the ASCR
- MU Faculty or unit
- Faculty of Science
- Keywords
- Senegal; National Park Niokolo Koba; vertebrate species diversity; large herbivores foraging ecology; changes of carrying capacity; small mammals and fish communities; ecology; taxonomy; birds behavioural ecology; fish parasites community
Regarding to the absence of actual data, the proposed project will be intented on the species composition and distribution of vertebrates of the Nikolo Koba National Park (Senegal). In case of small mammal species the research will be concentrated on systematically difficult to assign and yet little explored groups of species. Our desire is to contribute to its systematic classification and status by the application of modern genetic methods. Study on ungulates will be concentrated on their foraging ecology. Special attention will be paid to the period of dry season in connection with the large area fires, which are, for population density of ungulates, limiting factor. The ichthyological research will be focused on the fish communities of periodical pools and streams with the aim to find out the dynamic of tis abundance and survival ot the particular species and their migration capacity. All research activities will be connected with the parazitological examination.
Publications
Total number of publications: 37
2009
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Interesting findings of two members of the genus <i>Oochoristica</i> (Cestoda, Anoplocephalidae, Linstowiinae) from reptiles (Senegal, Africa)
Year: 2009, type: Conference abstract
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On Gyrodactylus species (Monogenea: Gyrodctaliydae) from the African Cichlid fishes
Year: 2009, type: Conference abstract
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Redescription of Parapharyngodon micipsae (Seurat 1917) (Nematoda Pharyngodonidae) from the new host Tarentola parvicarinata Joger 1980 (Squamata Gekkonidae)
Tropical Zoology, year: 2009, volume: 22, edition: 2
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SEM and LM Observations on Parapharyngodon micipsae (Nematoda, Pharyngodonidae) from Senegal
Year: 2009, type: Conference abstract
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Studying of Nematode Morphology with Three Kinds of Methods: LM, CLSM and SEM
Year: 2009, type: Conference abstract
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TAXONOMIC REVISION OF THE GENUS TRIAENOPS (CHIROPTERA: HIPPOSIDERIDAE) WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES FROM SOUTHERN ARABIA AND DEFINITIONS OF A NEW GENUS AND TRIBE
Folia Zoologica, year: 2009, volume: 58, edition: 2009
2008
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Dactylogyrids (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea) from the gills of Labeo (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from West Africa
Helminthological Days 2006-2008. Book of Abstracts., year: 2008
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Dactylogyrids (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea) from the gills of Labeo (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from West Africa
Year: 2008, type: Conference abstract
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Diplogyrodactylus martini n. g. et sp. (Monogenea: Gyrodactylidae), a new gyrodactylid on grey bichir, Polypterus senegalus (Polypteridae) from Senegal (West Africa)
Year: 2008, type: Conference abstract
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Gyrodactylids on the freshwater fishes of Senegal
Year: 2008, type: Conference abstract